Saturday, February 2, 2013

In pursuit of the perfect book

Imagine standing in front of your piles and piles and piles of
books and asking the one that will shake you to your core to step
forward and declare itself so you can be changed forever. Amazingly
enough, it does. And it's not what you asked for, it's everything. It's
words filling the fibers of your heart, flowing through your veins,
echoing in your ears and throbbing at your temples. Both an euphoria and
a headache.

Dead ends you can't walk through and mountains you easily climb.
Characters living in your head and haunting your soul. Words coming back
to you while you try to sleep and scenes playing before your eyes as
you try to have a conversation with a friend.

Stalling you and pushing you forward. Making you stop breathing just so
you appreciate your next breath. Clinging to the hem of your dress as
you try to move on and daring you to read other books just to see you
running back to its pages.

Pages

"Up till now I always thought bickering was just something children did and they outgrew it. Of course, there's sometimes a reason to have a 'real' quarrel, but the verbal exchanges that take place here are just plain bickering. I should be used to the fact that these squabbles are daily occurrences, but I'm not and never will be as long as I'm the subject of nearly every discussion. (They refer to these as 'discussions instead of 'quarrels', but Germans don't know the difference!)"— Anne Frank